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Everything about Baseflow
Stream flow between precipitation events
Baseflow is the portion of the streamflow that is sustained between precipitation events, fed to streams by delayed pathways. It should not be confused with groundwater flow. Fair weather flow is also called base flow. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: BaseflowA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: The impact of climate change on monthly baseflow trends across CanadaInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Ground-water baseflow to the upper Mississippi River upstream of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, Minnesota during July 1988The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: How to construct recursive digital filters for baseflow separationCited 832 times
- Go sideways: HydrographA closely related topic
- Go sideways: StreamflowA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The portion of streamflow that comes from the sum of deep subsurface flow and delayed shallow subsurface flow.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
How to construct recursive digital filters for baseflow separation
AUTOMATED METHODS FOR ESTIMATING BASEFLOW AND GROUND WATER RECHARGE FROM STREAMFLOW RECORDS1
A review of baseflow recession analysis
Effects of watershed topography, soils, land use, and climate on baseflow hydrology in humid regions: A review
A comparison of baseflow indices, which were calculated with seven different baseflow separation methods
Increasing streamflow and baseflow in Mississippi River since the 1940s: Effect of land use change
Uncertainties in annual riverine phosphorus load estimation: Impact of load estimation methodology, sampling frequency, baseflow index and catchment population density
Baseflow recession and recharge as nonlinear storage processes
🆕 Influential since 2022
The impact of climate change on monthly baseflow trends across Canada
Comprehensive assessment of baseflow responses to long-term meteorological droughts across the United States
Assessing the impact of climate change and human activity on streamflow in a semiarid basin using precipitation and baseflow analysis
Using Baseflow Ensembles for Hydrologic Hysteresis Characterization in Humid Basins of Southeastern China
A New Approach for Assessing Groundwater Recharge by Combining GRACE and Baseflow With Case Studies in Karst Areas of Southwest China
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Ground-water baseflow to the upper Mississippi River upstream of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, Minnesota during July 1988G. A. Payne · 1995
- 📕Base-flow characteristics of segments of the Piney River, and East and West Piney Rivers, Dickson and Hickman counties, TennesseeV. Jeff May · 1985
- 📕Base-flow measurements at partial-record sites on small streams in South CarolinaA. Carroll Barker · 1986
- 📕Ground-water discharge and base-flow nitrate loads of nontidal streams, and their relation to a hydrogeomorphic classification of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, middle Atlantic coastL. Joseph Bachman · 1998
- 📕Low-flow frequency estimation using base-flow measurementsJery R. Stedinger · 1985
- 📕Determination of base-flow characteristics at selected streamflow-gaging stations on the Mad River, Ohio / by G.F. Koltun ; prepared in cooperation with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of WaterG. F. Koltun · 1995
- 📕Base-flow frequency characteristics of selected Pennsylvania streamsKirk E. White · 1990
- 📕Ground-water baseflow to the upper Mississippi River upstream of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, Minnesota during July 1988G. A Payne · 1995
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